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1 Dead, 5 Injured in Second Enbridge Pipeline Explosion This Year
A natural gas pipeline owned by Canadian company Enbridge exploded in Kentucky early Thursday, sending flames 300 feet into the sky, killing one woman and sending five people to the hospital, CBS News reported. The blast was so strong it showed up on radar.
"It was like an atomic bomb went off, basically," one evacuee told WKYT, as CBS News reported. All told, around 75 people were forced to flee their homes in the Indian Camp trailer park in Moreland, The Associated Press reported.
Massive explosion and fire across northern Lincoln County. You can actually see this happen on radar. Wow! #kywx @WKYT pic.twitter.com/2Qtg5Rixfk— Chris Bailey (@Kentuckyweather) August 1, 2019
The explosion occurred around 1 a.m. It destroyed at least five homes in the trailer park and damaged four others, The Louisville Courier Journal reported. It took firefighters hours to fight the flames, which burned trees and grass in the area and left only red dirt behind, according to The Associated Press.
"The part of the area that has been compromised, there's just nothing left," Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Don Gilliam said. "The residences that are still standing or damaged will be accessible. There doesn't really look like there's any in-between back there. They're either destroyed or they're still standing."
The flames also melted tar on the nearby U.S. 127 and were visible throughout Lincoln County. The smoke could be seen from Louisville, 70 miles away, according to The Louisville Courier Journal.
@Kentuckyweather my back yard, Moreland KY pic.twitter.com/zHaCRlRTs9— Sofia Nunez (@snunez1234) August 1, 2019
Jodie Coulter, one of the five people injured, described the blast.
"I could feel it as we were running from the house," Coulter told The Louisville Courier Journal. "I could feel it, like if you had your hand in an oven."
The woman who died was identified as 58-year-old Lisa Denise Derringer, one of Coulter's neighbors in the mobile home park. Kentucky State Police spokesman Robert Purdy said she may have left her home because of the fire and died from heat exposure, as The Associated Press reported.
Nearby railway tracks were also damaged, causing an overnight back-up of 31 trains, Purdy said.
The explosion was the second this year on Enbridge's Texas Eastern natural gas pipeline, Reuters pointed out. Another explosion in Ohio in January on the same line injured two. But, as Quartz summarized, Enbridge overall has a history of disasters from both its natural gas and liquid oil pipelines. Its lines were behind both the Kalamazoo River spill, which dumped around one million gallons of tar sands oil into the Michigan waterway in 2010, and a 50,000 gallon oil spill in Wisconsin in 2012. A Greenpeace report found that the company averaged one hazardous liquid pipeline accident every 20 days between 2002 and 2018.
Despite its record, the company is behind a controversial plan to replace its aging line 5 pipelines with an oil-transport tunnel under Michigan's Straits of Mackinac in the Great Lakes.
Washington Gov. and climate-focused presidential candidate Jay Inslee came out against both the existing pipelines and the proposed tunnel last month, calling them "a clear and present threat to the health of the Great Lakes and to our climate" in a statement reported by The Detroit News.
But the dangers of fossil fuel use are bigger than one company. Environmental group Earthworks noted that the Kentucky explosion was the fourth involving oil and gas infrastructure in the last two days.
We've been devastated to hear the news of explosions at fossil fuel and #petrochemical facilities in #Colorado #Texas #Pennsylvania and #Kentucky in just the past 2 days.— EARTHWORKS (@Earthworks) August 1, 2019
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"These incidents are just the latest in a growing list of injurious and deadly fossil fuel impacts across the United States," Earthworks blogger Melissa Troutman wrote. "As the renewable energy revolution continues to grow, these events are a tragic reminder of what our society has yet to leave behind."
Former Pence Aid Endorses Biden, Says Trump Cared More About Re-election Than Stopping Coronavirus
Yet another former Trump administration staffer has come out with an endorsement for former Vice President Joe Biden, this time in response to President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Monarch Butterflies' Spectacular Migration Is at Risk – An Ambitious Plan Aims to Save It
By D. André Green II
One of nature's epic events is underway: Monarch butterflies' fall migration. Departing from all across the United States and Canada, the butterflies travel up to 2,500 miles to cluster at the same locations in Mexico or along the Pacific Coast where their great-grandparents spent the previous winter.
Millions of People Care About Monarchs
I will never forget the sights and sounds the first time I visited monarchs' overwintering sites in Mexico. Our guide pointed in the distance to what looked like hanging branches covered with dead leaves. But then I saw the leaves flash orange every so often, revealing what were actually thousands of tightly packed butterflies. The monarchs made their most striking sounds in the Sun, when they burst from the trees in massive fluttering plumes or landed on the ground in the tussle of mating.

Decades of educational outreach by teachers, researchers and hobbyists has cultivated a generation of monarch admirers who want to help preserve this phenomenon. This global network has helped restore not only monarchs' summer breeding habitat by planting milkweed, but also general pollinator habitat by planting nectaring flowers across North America.

Scientists have calculated that restoring the monarch population to a stable level of about 120 million butterflies will require planting 1.6 billion new milkweed stems. And they need them fast. This is too large a target to achieve through grassroots efforts alone. A new plan, announced in the spring of 2020, is designed to help fill the gap.

Pros and Cons of Regulation
The top-down strategy for saving monarchs gained energy in 2014, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing them as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. A decision is expected in December 2020.

Listing a species as endangered or threatened triggers restrictions on "taking" (hunting, collecting or killing), transporting or selling it, and on activities that negatively affect its habitat. Listing monarchs would impose restrictions on landowners in areas where monarchs are found, over vast swaths of land in the U.S.

In my opinion, this is not a reason to avoid a listing. However, a "threatened" listing might inadvertently threaten one of the best conservation tools that we have: public education.

It would severely restrict common practices, such as rearing monarchs in classrooms and back yards, as well as scientific research. Anyone who wants to take monarchs and milkweed for these purposes would have to apply for special permits. But these efforts have had a multigenerational educational impact, and they should be protected. Few public campaigns have been more successful at raising awareness of conservation issues.

The Rescue Attempt
To preempt the need for this kind of regulation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved a Nationwide Candidate Conservation Agreement for Monarch Butterflies. Under this plan, "rights-of-way" landowners – energy and transportation companies and private owners – commit to restoring and creating millions of acres of pollinator habitat that have been decimated by land development and herbicide use in the past half-century.

The agreement was spearheaded by the Rights-of-Way Habitat Working Group, a collaboration between the University of Illinois Chicago's Energy Resources Center, the Fish and Wildlife Service and over 40 organizations from the energy and transportation sectors. These sectors control "rights-of-way" corridors such as lands near power lines, oil pipelines, railroad tracks and interstates, all valuable to monarch habitat restoration.

Under the plan, partners voluntarily agree to commit a percentage of their land to host protected monarch habitat. In exchange, general operations on their land that might directly harm monarchs or destroy milkweed will not be subject to the enhanced regulation of the Endangered Species Act – protection that would last for 25 years if monarchs are listed as threatened. The agreement is expected to create up to 2.3 million acres of new protected habitat, which ideally would avoid the need for a "threatened" listing.

A Model for Collaboration
This agreement could be one of the few specific interventions that is big enough to allow researchers to quantify its impact on the size of the monarch population. Even if the agreement produces only 20% of its 2.3 million acre goal, this would still yield nearly half a million acres of new protected habitat. This would provide a powerful test of the role of declining breeding and nectaring habitat compared to other challenges to monarchs, such as climate change or pollution.

Scientists hope that data from this agreement will be made publicly available, like projects in the Monarch Conservation Database, which has tracked smaller on-the-ground conservation efforts since 2014. With this information we can continue to develop powerful new models with better accuracy for determining how different habitat factors, such as the number of milkweed stems or nectaring flowers on a landscape scale, affect the monarch population.

North America's monarch butterfly migration is one of the most awe-inspiring feats in the natural world. If this rescue plan succeeds, it could become a model for bridging different interests to achieve a common conservation goal.

Ig Nobel Award Winners Include Researchers Who Listened to Alligators on Helium
The annual Ig Nobel prizes were awarded Thursday by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research for scientific experiments that seem somewhat absurd, but are also thought-provoking. This was the 30th year the awards have been presented, but the first time they were not presented at Harvard University. Instead, they were delivered in a 75-minute pre-recorded ceremony.


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Almost one year to the date of landing on the disabled list for 10 months, Dillon Gee tossed six solid innings to earn his sixth win during Buffalo's 7-3 triumph over Toledo Friday night.
In his tenth start of the season, Gee gave up six hits while allowing three earned runs. Two on sixth inning solo shots by Ryan Strieby and Casper Wells.
Other than the sixth inning, Gee had the Mud Hens fooled all night. Gee had a season high for a Bisons pitcher when he struck out nine batters during his six inning performance.
Gee was provided with run support from his teammates early. In the third inning after center fielder Jesus Feliciano and first baseman Daniel Murphy reached base, designated hitter Mike Jacobs stepped to the plate. Jacobs wasted no time and took the first pitch he saw deep to center field for a three run home run, his fifth of the season.
Jacobs was not a one man show for the Herd however. Feliciano added to his league high batting average by going 4-5 with two RBI. Feliciano is now batting .380 on the season.
Also helping the offensive attack was Murphy and left fielder Mike Cervenak. Both had two hits on the night and Murphy added an RBI.
After hitting two home runs yesterday, third baseman Mike Hessman went 1-5 on the day but did more damage on the defensive side. Hessman set the tone early when he threw out Mud Hen second baseman Scott Sizemore at home to deny the Mud Hens a run in the first inning.
Bobby Parnell worked two innings, earned his second save while striking out four of the six batters he faced.

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Wis. High Court Upholds Gay Marriage Ban
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a state constitutional amendment that affirms traditional marriage and bans same-sex civil unions.
The court ruled 7-0, stating in the opinion that "the marriage amendment was adopted by the people of Wisconsin using the process prescribed by the constitution, and is properly now part of our constitution."
Family groups praised the ruling.
"Marriage and the will of the people are the clear winners in this decision," said Julaine Appling, president of Wisconsin Family Council, in a statement.
The amendment was approved in 2006 by 59 percent of state voters. It states: "Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state. A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized in this state."
University of Wisconsin professor William McConkey filed a lawsuit the following year, arguing that the amendment violated the constitution by addressing more than one subject (marriage and civil unions).
But the high court concluded that the two sentences of the marriage amendment "relate to marriage and tend to effect or carry out the same general purpose of preserving the legal status of marriage in Wisconsin as between only one man and one woman."
Jim Campbell, litigation counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, which filed a friend-of-the-court brief last year on behalf of the Wisconsin Family Council, maintained that voters adopted the amendment "for one clear and simple reason: to protect the institution of marriage."
"We should be strengthening – not undermining – marriage, which is one man and one woman," he commented. "Once again, activists tried to use the courts to force something on the people that they have repeatedly and overwhelmingly rejected."
Appling said the technical argument brought by the plaintiff was just a "sneaky attempt tear down what the voters clearly wanted."
"Judges and politicians should never toss aside the will of the people in order to impose a system that intentionally deprives children of a mom and dad. Which parent doesn't matter: a mom or a dad?"
Voters have stated that they wanted to pass the amendment to prevent "activist judges" from legalizing same-sex marriage and to protect the current definition of marriage. A number of state supreme court decisions overturning the marriage laws of other states were the primary reason for the amendment.


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Passed in July 2012, The RESTORE Act directs money from penalties in response to the BP oil disaster to the Gulf Coast, but has only been a written law – a promise to the citizens of the region – until now. A newly announced $1.4 billion settlement between the Department of Justice and Transocean Ltd will provide some real green to the RESTORE Act and help to begin the restoration of the Gulf of Mexico's coastal and marine resources.
Holding all parties responsible for their role in the BP oil disaster is imperative to provide some of the financing needed to restore the Gulf's ecosystems and people. Transocean will plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act and pay over a billion dollars in fines.
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This new settlement is a great step forward, but the biggest step is yet to come. BP still needs to be held fully accountable and it's unfortunate that we still have no resolution of civil and administrative claims. We deserve nothing less than a trial resolution that recognizes and compensates the people of the Gulf for all that has been lost.
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By DAVID GREEN
Fayette's sewer project took on a new dimension last week when village officials learned about a change in funding. This time around, the news is good.
A few months ago, possible funding through the USDA was to cover 45 percent of the $7 million project, but that slipped to just 28 percent before the end of the year.
Even at 45 percent, residents would have faced a difficult payment schedule to cover the remaining costs, said Fayette mayor Ruth Marlatt, but the 28 percent figure would have made it unbearable. Sewer rates would have increased by an estimated $33 a month.
Marlatt knew from talking with Roberta Acosta of the Rural Community Assistance Program that Fayette might be able to change its standing in the competitive grant application standings and obtain more help with the work.
That's just what happened. Acosta made some changes and interim village administrator Tom Clemensen learned last week that a grant from the EPA would cover 75 percent of the cost. This leaves the village to pay back a zero percent loan for $1.6 million over the next 30 years.
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Mary Ann Swalve 1953-2012
Funeral service for Mary Ann Swalve was held Monday, Oct. 8, at the Martin-Mattice Funeral Home in Emmetsburg. Pastor Lori Westfall officiated.
Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery Emmetsburg.
Mary Ann Swalve, daughter of John and Evelyn (Meng) Cullen, was born Aug. 4, 1953, in Emmetsburg. She attended school in Emmetsburg, completing her G.E.D. at Iowa Lakes Community College.
Mary Ann was united in marriage to Laurance Swalve in 1971. To this union four sons were born. Mary Ann also raised her three nephews, along with her boys. Mary Ann had a day care in her home for many years and later was employed in the housekeeping department, at the Super 8 in Emmetsburg.
Mary Ann was a member of the United Lutheran Church in Ringsted.
Mary Ann passed away on Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, at Mercy Medical Center in Mason City, at the age of 59.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a nephew, Simon Simonson.
She is survived by her children, John (Dallas) Swalve of Cylinder, Rick (Tracy) Swalve of Emmetsburg, Joe Swalve of Ringsted, Andy Swalve of Emmetsburg, Jacob Cole of Emmetsburg, Jamison Cole of Whittemore and Zachary Zeman of Emmetsburg; their father, Laurance Swalve; her grandchildren, PVFC Ervin (Courtney) Bochmann, Amber Swalve, LCTL Justin (Kelsey) Hotchkiss; and Jessica Swalve; a sister, Nancy Simonson; and two nieces.
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" The Vampire Diaries " executive producer, Julie Plec , revealed that Elena's vampire transition will reboot season 4.
In a new report from E! News on Wednesday, in an interview following the ATX TV Festival in Texas, Julie said that turning Elena ( Nina Dobrev ) into a vampire is like "we're starting over – we're starting a new story."
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"It is a beginning for her and what was exciting about it is we were going to do it," Julie said, "and so everything we did all year long was leading up to this."
Julie added that when they started working on season 4 , "it makes everything feel so new and so fresh and so, in that way, it takes us back to that great feeling of the beginning of that first season where it's about a girl with a secret and it's a becoming , it's a transition."
This beginning will also see Elena's feelings possibly change towards the Salvatore brothers, as she may have different feelings about her choice. When she picked Stefan ( Paul Wesley ) as the man she wanted to be with, that was her choice as a human.
But, "she's not human anymore," Julie added.
"So, how will she change and what will her that do to her relationship with everybody in her life?" Julie teased, "And so it just opens the door wider rather than closing it."
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Peugeot's 108 demonstrates just how far citycars have come in recent years. In fact, this one's more sophisticated and efficient than you might ever have expected a model of this kind could be. With this car, Peugeot is now offering an efficient VTi 72 petrol engine - and as before, there's the option of a TOP! variant featuring a neat retractable fabric roof. Plus you can personalise your 108 precisely to your preference.
Creating a citycar is hard enough. Trying to differentiate a design shared with other brands must be even more difficult. Such was Peugeot's job with this car, the 108. Like its predecessor, the old 107, this model has to share its design and engineering with two rivals, Citroen's C1 and Toyota's Aygo. And, in comparison with the old 107, it had to offer citycar buyers more options - extra hi-tech, a bit more space and more complete safety provision. In all these areas, this 108 does indeed improve on what went before and has now been improved still further with the addition of a more efficient Vti 72 petrol engine now used across the range. In comparison to its two design stablemates, this Peugeot has gone for a classier, more mature look. And it's highly personalisable. So, is that enough to put this Peugeot in pole position in this segment? Let's find out.
Driving Experience
As you might know, the this car's Peugeot 107 predecessor was part of a three-car family alongside the Toyota Aygo and the Citroen C1, all three models being screwed together in Kolin in the Czech Republic. It's the same story with this second generation design, which is why it'll come as no great surprise to learn that the 108 is mechanically identical to the Citroen C1. Original versions of the 108 could be had with two three cylinder VTi petrol engines, a 1.0-litre 68bhp unit and a 1.2-litre 82bhp powerlant. These units have now both been replaced by a VTi 72 Euro 6.d-TEMP engine, which comes with a 5-speed manual gearbox. Urban-bound folk will appreciate the light steering and a kerb-to-kerb 10.2m turning circle so tight that even if you spot a parking place on the other side of the road, you may be able to throw a quick U-turn to snaffle it. When reversing into a narrow bay, it's almost comical how little car there is behind the rear seats and it's worth remembering that you can afford to leave yourself some breathing room at the back. Parking like this is especially easy thanks to the light power steering that'll twirl you easily into the smallest slot.
Design and Build
The difference between the 108, the Aygo and the C1's exterior styling is far more marked in this second generation model. Of the three, the 108 undoubtedly possesses the most mature, refined styling. That's important because this car is not really attempting to make a big play for first time buyers. Instead it's looking to attract customers who might never have chosen a city car because they felt too insubstantial and cheap. The 108 looks reassuringly grown-up with a discreet front end treatment and assured, mature detailing. There's very little here that looks contrived or gauche. Chief designer Ivo Groen insisted on lots of chrome and a palette of restrained, smart colours. The interior of the 108 hinges around a 7-inch centrally mounted touch screen system. This display is optional on the Active trim level and standard from Allure up and it really brings the interior together so you'll be missing out if you pinch pennies here. It controls the car's media, trip computer, Bluetooth and various vehicle settings. Should you want to personalise your 108, Peugeot offer seven different themes which feature decals, trim inserts, and seat fabrics like houndstooth and tartan.
Market and Model
There are three and five-door bodystyles. The three-door variant comes with 'Active' or 'Allure' trim options and will cost you from around £12,800. The five-door models are priced from just over £13,000 and and come with all three trim levels - 'Active', 'Allure' and 'Collection'. if you go for five doors with your 108, you'll get the option to pay £1,000 more to have yourself the 'TOP!' bodystyle, which gives you a full-length fabric folding roof. TOP! Models start from around £15,500. The 108 gets MirrorLink, which allows the user to control their car's applications through the touch screens of their smart phones. Apple iOS, Android and Windows Mobile platforms are all supported, but do remember that the system won't allow you to start updating your Facebook status when the car's on the move. Safety equipment shouldn't be an issue as even the entry-level car is fitted with Hill Start Assist, anti-lock brakes, emergency collision braking system, and electronic stability control. There are full length curtain airbags, two side airbags and two front airbags. Both rear seats are also fitted with ISOFIX child seat mounts. At the top of the range, the Active City Brake safety set-up and a Lane Departure Warning System are both offered as an option on Allure and Feline badge levels. Recent changes see a striking new metallic paint, Smooth Green, replacing the previous Green Fizz option, with Diamond White, Zircon Grey, Raven Black and Antelope Red also available throughout the model range. Smooth Green is also featured as an option on the interior ambience colour palette.
Cost of Ownership
Even if it is being targeted at well-heeled downsizers or those families looking for an easy to use second or third car, the Peugeot 108 can't afford to be off the pace in terms of economy and emissions. It's not even a purely monetary thing anymore. To fall behind here smacks of complacent engineering and manufacturers are keen to one-up each other. Call it a way for the boffins to keep score. That we benefit from this battle of the brains can only be applauded and in Euro6 guise, the 108 nets a combined WLTP fuel consumption figure of up to 58.9mpg in 1.0-litre form. The CO2 emssions figure is up to 110g/km (WLTP). We'd also be willing to bet that the 108 ends up with the strongest residual values of the three sister vehicles created from this design. It looks to have the broadest appeal, although we'd probably look to specify the car with the touch screen if we wanted to guarantee better retained values.
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The Czech prime minister, Bohuslav Sobotka, is to present George Brady with the Karel Kramář Memorial Medal. In a statement, the PM said that the mayor of Mr. Brady's hometown of Nové Město na Moravě had requested that he honour the 88-year-old in that way. The news follows a backlash after reports that the president's office had struck Mr. Brady off a list of people to get high state honours later this week. Mr. Sobotka said the Canadian citizen deserved the medal for the courage he had shown during the Holocaust and his educational activities.
The Chamber of Deputies will honour George Brady at a ceremonial gathering on Thursday morning. Mr. Brady is to receive a commemorative medal and a commemorative certificate, the speaker of the lower house, Jan Hamáček, told the Czech News Agency. The president's office is accused of removing Mr. Brady from a list of recipients of state honours on October 28 after his nephew, arts minister Daniel Herman, received the Dalai Lama. The idea of honouring the 88-year-old Holocaust survivor was put forward at the weekend by Civic Democrat MP Miroslava Němcová after the scandal broke. The president's office denies any wrongdoing.
Christian Democrat deputies and senators are to stay away from a state honours ceremony at Prague Castle on October 28. Party leader Pavel Bělobrádek said the event had degenerated into undignified politicking and the settling of personal scores. The announcement follows a scandal linked to the alleged removal of George Brady from a list of recipients of honours after his nephew, Christian Democrat arts minister Daniel Herman, received the Dalai Lama. However, Mr. Bělobrádek welcomed a suggestion that the president's office could present Mr. Brady with an award on a different occasion. Many legislators from other parties will also boycott Friday's ceremony.
Police have proposed that a man accused of throwing an egg at President Miloš Zeman face charges. The man faces up to two years in prison for disorderly conduct over the incident, which took place on the November 17 state holiday last year. A number of missiles were thrown at a stage at Prague's Albertov, where Mr. Zeman appeared at an event alongside the leader of an anti-Muslim group. A state attorney will now consider whether to file charges against the man, who was not arrested on the spot.
President Miloš Zeman says he is considering presenting an award to George Brady at an appropriate occasion. Speaking via his spokesman, Mr. Zeman said this would be a "gesture of good will". The president's office is accused of removing Mr. Brady – a Czech-born Holocaust survivor – from a list of recipients of state honours on October 28 after his nephew, arts minister Daniel Herman, received the Dalai Lama. Mr. Herman says the president made the honour conditional on the meeting with the Tibetan not going ahead. Mr. Zeman's office denies this. Mr. Brady, who is 88, says he is not interested in receiving an honour from the president.
The 20th edition of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival has got underway in the Vysočina town. Among the guests this year at the country's most important documentary event will be US experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison and Mike Bonanno of activist duo the Yes Men. American psychologist Philip Zimbardo, well-known for a 1970s "prison experiment", will appear at Jihlava's Inspiration Forum. The festival runs until Monday.
The state budget will end in surplus this year, the minister of finance, Andrej Babiš, said on Tuesday. Mr. Babiš said that would be the best budget result since the Czech Republic was founded in 1993. In addition, state debt has fallen for the first time since 2011. The minister chiefly attributed the positive figures to more effective tax collection.
Czech tennis player Karolína Plíšková got off to a winning start at her debut at the WTA Finals in Singapore, defeating Spanish-Venezuelan opponent Garbine Muguruza. The match was a dramatic one: Plíšková, ranked fifth in the the world, came back from 4-0 in the third set and saved a match point. The final score was 6-2, 6-7,7-5.
The government has approved a bill which will allow 'second-parent adoption' in the Czech Republic, granting the non-biological partner in registered same-sex partnerships the same legal rights to the child. The issue has been discussed for several years and earlier proposals were tabled in the past. A recent poll by the CVVM agency suggested that more than three-fifths of Czechs were in favour.


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The 2012 recruiting classes will first be on display on collegiate diamonds around the country this spring. But for now, it's time for the '13 recruiting classes to get all the publicity as we unveil the PG Top 50 national team recruiting rankings with class breakdowns for each of those programs.
These rankings reflect those prospects who would attend college this fall.
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1. Florida
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4. Louisiana State
5. Southern California
6. Oregon
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Total 2013 class additions: 18
PG Top 100 commits: 6
Total points: 160
Average class player ranking: 8.89
Head of the class: LHP/1B AJ Puk
Florida often takes advantage of the fact it resides in the talent-rich Sunshine State when it comes to recruiting elite talent. However, it also knows when to take things to the national stage, as the Gators secured one of the nation's elite two-way players in Puk, the Iowan. Puk is a tall 6-foot-6, 205-pounder, who has an easy arm motion and topped out at 92 last summer. He also showed well in the PG Midwest Showcase, where he was 87-89 with a fastball that was good up in the zone. Additionally, he flashed a 74 mph curveball with depth and was hard to pick up. Offensively, Puk has good bat speed with some pop.
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Dazed Digital meets Alexandre Mattiussi to talk about his very personal take on menswear
AMI is a bookending of designer Alexandre Mattiussi's initials, but it also means friend. That's appropriate, given his personality-driven fashion, a belief of the man commanding the clothes and not the other way around. His fashion is based around style and the proposition of a wardrobe each season rather than an overbearing trend, and his informal A/W12 presentation, staged at an apartment over drinks, is a pretty good summary of him as a character, driven by things that are very human and very relatable. Like the dual meaning of his brandname, Mattiussi's clothes are very likely to become old friends themselves – chances are these pieces will still be worn and enjoyed in 10, 15 years' time.
Dazed Digital: Your winter collection was inspired by Normandy...
Alexandre Mattiussi: When it comes to winter I love to visit my parents in Normandy. Sometimes it sounds a bit pretentious, because I'm saying that my parents have a house in Normandy – but it's nothing special, it's just in the country! I grew up in Normandy and I used to be a very creative little boy. Kind of a Billy Elliot, as I was a dancer when I was young, from the age of four to fourteen years old I was dancing all at the time. Then I got into sketching and designing and doing creative stuff. I like the globality of fashion, the way you can be involved in clothes, in store concepts, packaging, styling, pictures, you can do presentations, it's a kind of theatre story – and that's what I liked when I was dancing.
Dazed Digital: How did you begin in the industry?
Alexandre Mattiussi: I went to the only public school in Paris and I spent three years there. I used to have Pierre Hardy as my teacher, who is now a friend and wears my clothes! I started at Dior, working with Lucas Ossendrijver on the classic 30 Montaigne line, then at 24 I was the first assistant of Ozwald Boateng at Givenchy, before Riccardo did menswear. I was then part of the team in the interim period before I worked under Tisci on his first collection, with the pink lace. That was great! And very shocking for me, from what we used to do before. Finally, I spent a year at Marc Jacobs, working with Joe McKenna. At 28, I realised I had to do my own collection: I spent two years thinking about the project, finding the suppliers to work with, trying to really create what I wanted to say and finding the right financial partners. We launched the one year ago and it went well, so I'm super happy.
Dazed Digital: And the collection rests on the type of clothes you want but can't find?
Alexandre Mattiussi: Exactly, clothes with the right twist. The way I design? It's about keeping the skills from luxury brands because of the quality of the fabrics, the way we cut the clothes, the way everything is made, but trying to make it more real. I didn't find clothes that I wanted to wear because things were too creative or too expensive. And when they were less expensive they were too casual. I'm trying to keep it classical and chic, achievable.
DD: Men are very loyal in the way they shop, no matter what they're into.
Alexandre Mattiussi: Yeah definitely, very confident with their style and really know what they want to wear at the end. I really listen to my customers because sometimes they're giving the best ideas – when they are interested in fashion they're really interested for good reasons! They know their body and they know what they can buy again season after season. Sometimes we're looking for something very precise. I'm into something more cool, in a way, inspiration comes from the street and my friends – we discuss what we want to drink, what we want to eat and what we want to wear.


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Fast protease assay using nanoengineered photonic crystals
|(Nanowerk News) Proteases are a family of enzymes that play a central role in cellular metabolism and are key players in many diseases, including cancer. Conventional assays for protease activity are often slow most take up to 24 hours to generate results and require relatively large samples in the 100 to 500 microliter size to achieve sensitivity capable of detecting low picomole amounts of protease. These characteristics hinder both basic research and drug development efforts.
|To overcome these limitations, a team of investigators at the enter of Nanotechnology for Treatment, Understanding, and Monitoring of Cancer (NANO-TUMOR), a National Cancer Institute-funded Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence based at the University of California, San Diego, turned to nanoengineered porous-silicon photonic crystals to create a far faster and more sensitive protease assay system. This new system, created by Michael Sailor, Ph.D., and his colleagues, is compatible with high-throughput array technologies. The researchers report their work on this system in the journal Advanced Materials ("Protein-Coated Porous-Silicon Photonic Crystals for Amplified Optical Detection of Protease Activity").
|To create their protease assay device, the investigators first create a photonic silicon crystal that refracts light at a specific wavelength and gives the crystal a distinct color. They then layer a thin coating of a protein onto the silicon crystal, which changes the observed color of the crystal to a greenish color. This thin protein coat also acts as a substrate for proteases, which digest protein. When digestion occurs, the color of the chip changes. This change, from green to orange-red, is visible with the naked eye.
|Tests with this system showed that a visible color change occurred within an hour of placing a 1 microliter drop of protease solution on the surface of the protein-coated chip. This color change could be seen with as little as 7.2 picomoles of protease. The investigators note that coating the nanoengineered silicon photonic crystals with molecules other than proteins could produce quick, sensitive assay devices for other important classes of enzymes, such as those that digest DNA or RNA.
|Source: National Cancer Institute
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text: The time has come, the walrus said, To speak of many things Of sailing ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings with that in mind and after much harrassement from friends and relatives I've finally started my ride report, I should mention I left on the trip 0830 hrs 31 July, 2012. I hope everybody finds this as interesting as I've found doing the trip has been so far. I'll start at the beginning of the trip with a quick synopsis but for those who would like to know exactly where I am now here you go. Spot http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0hFQX7T2DRC8WBlqa7FhPRKlBDBNWAm55 Before I continue I must comment, I lost my notebook yesterday and had to do this from memory so it's a little abbreviated. The descriptions will improve The first part of my journey was done in a bit of a hurry as I was heading down to Revzilla in Philadelphia to pick up some new riding gear. Decided I would stop at the US border In St Stephan New Brunswick, get a motel room the first night due to the threat of rain, grabbed a nice bottle of local wine and settled in for a quiet night Planning next day, trying to be organized The border crossing went well but pictures are not allowed so I was informed. A quick couple of days took me down to the Casa Icewalker where he had put out the welcome mat A very gracious host with a great family what should have been another quick run would take me down to a little place called Langehorne PA where Alex, another Advrider, played host, the theory of that ride was a lot better than the actual carrying out. Some how I forgot while previously playing with my new Nuvi gps I set no highways and no toll roads in the directions, so I managed to send myself through downtown New York City and New Jersey in the middle of rush hour. On arrival though I managed to learn something about how to become a classical pianist from Irideaslowbike who was kind enough to put me up for the night and feed me Alex really has talent and is entered in a series of prestigious competitions in the future, the way everything went I never managed to grab a picture of him and his family, my apologies Alex. Finally made it to Revzilla and my awaiting riding gear this stuff really makes a fellow look good doesn't it! Well that may not be true but it makes me feel a little safer anyway. kudo's to Revzilla's staff by the way, knowledgeable,friendly and really helpful Following Revzilla's excellent directions put me up on the SkyLine Dr, what an amazing ride, followed right away by riding the BlueRidge Parkway There's been a lot of work done on the BlueRidge to try and highlite the areas as you travel through, one was a rebuilt watermill and a small slice of what life was like in the old days the flumes that fed the watermill As interesting as the rides are I think the people you meet are better Here's two guys I met and spent the evening talking to, my age and biking the BlueRidge Parkway, now that's macho!! This bridge is the lowest elevation of the BRP This picture was taken by a person I met, Rodney Laughon, who is an artist, look him up(shameless plug for Rodney) and the sign makes this self evident Came down off the BRP and headed over to the IronHorse Lodge for a couple of days (pictures didn't turn out) and rode "The Tail Of The Dragon" most of you already know what a great piece of asphalt that is! Even with all the rain there was for the previous week there was still a large number of riders there It doesn't look like a lot but there are two parking lots. While I sat had a coffee and watched, the bike turnover was high, one group would leave to ride and another would fill their spot immediately, the lots never got emptier than this having done what I wanted on the eastern side of the US I immediately headed off to Texarkana Texas where I ran into a wall of heat, just spent two days laying low in the campground swimming pool. Just below Texarkana is the little Civil War period town Jefferson, the town doesn't seem to have seen many changes in all this time, as the saying goes the whole town reeks of history One of the original taverns in the town At the local emporium they had two original stocking ladders, one of which is still in use They had quite a selection of goods for sale Having been invited down to Casa Tricepilot to work on the bike if necessary or just sit and talk I took advantage of his kind offer, Little did I know he only extended the invitation so he could make fun of me Here, put this rag on your head it will keep you cool but I have to admit it did work, got the oil changed and was ready to gird my loins and cross my second international border Here we are holding each other up in the heat you will of course notice Tricepilot has pushed me back out in the sun again Next installment, crossing into Mexico and being unable to locate the huge Aduana and migracion setup.


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Hendrik van Ro(o)sevelt, was a Mennonite elder in Flanders, Belgium. Concerning his life and work little is known. In 1566, probably shortly after Easter, on the invitation of the Mennonite emigrants from Flanders to the Dutch province of Friesland, he went to Friesland and stayed in Harlingen or Franeker until August 1566. The Flemish had invited him to help in settling their discord with the Mennonites of Friesland, who had received them kindly but soon objected to some differences in the manner of dress and living. Van Roosevelt tried to mediate, but he showed partiality to the Flemish. The discord culminated in a schism and the Frisian Mennonites were banned by Dirk Philips; then Hendrik van Roosevelt likewise banned the Frisians. In 1568 van Roosevelt stayed in Emden, East Friesland, and in the fall of 1569 he was sent with Jan van Ophoorn, an elder of Emden, and a certain Laurens, an elder at Franeker, to Cleve to arbitrate a dispute in that congregation. At that point van Roosevelt disappears from history. He probably returned to Flanders, where under his influence the congregations, particularly those of Antwerp and Gent, sided with the Flemish party against the Frisians. This Hendrik van Ro(o)sevelt may be the Hendrik (van) Rosenfelt, of Antwerp, who came to Montau, West Prussia, in 1586, and was the progenitor of the Mennonite Rosenfeld family.
Cramer, Samuel and Fredrik Pijper. Bibliotheca Reformatoria Neerlandica. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1903-1914: v. X, 555 note, 603 note.
Doopsgezinde Bijdragen (1893): 21, 26 f., 31, 33, 51 f., 68, 76.
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: v. I, No. 466.
Kühler, Wilhelmus Johannes. Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Doopsgezinden in de Zestiende Eeuw. Haarlem: H.D. Tjeenk Willink, 1932: v. I, 411.
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Ron Paul's campaign financed by active duty servicemen and women, grassroots supporters
Steve Watson
October 19, 2011
A new independent analysis of 2012 presidential candidates' campaign contributions confirms that Mitt Romney is the banksters' choice for the GOP nominee, and indeed for President.
Records of campaign contributions based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically this past weekend, reveal that Romney's top 20 donors are made up almost exclusively of the biggest private banks on the planet.
Among Romney's top twenty donors are Credit Suisse Group, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Wells Fargo and Citigroup Inc.
By far and away Romney's largest campaign contributions have emanated from employees and officials at Goldman Sachs, with a total of $354,700 donated.
The donations are tallied from the organization's PAC, its individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals' immediate families.
Remember that the limit on donating to candidates is $2,400 per person, as per the Federal Election Campaign Act.
In stark contrast to Romney, and every other candidate for that matter, the top three organizations that employ Congressman Ron Paul's supporters are the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, and the U.S. Navy.
Indeed, the latest figures once again show that the Ron Paul 2012 Campaign has raised more donations from active military than all other presidential candidates—Republican or Democrat.
Paul tallied more than $75,000 from servicemen and women in the third quarter.
Paul also raised more from active military than all other GOP competitors combined, and more than incumbent President Barack Obama.
Unlike the majority of the rest of the field, Ron Paul's donations have come solely from individuals and not from the use of PACs, bundling, subsidiaries and the like – indicating that the Congressman is the only candidate with purely grassroots support.
"This fundraising analysis confirms Americans' beliefs about Ron Paul and their suspicions about Mitt Romney." said Ron Paul 2012 National Campaign Chairman Jesse Benton in a statement.
"It is that Dr. Paul is extraordinarily popular and accepted by the everyman and by everyday heroes, while Romney relies almost exclusively on his big-business ties," Benton added.
Paul's modest foreign policy, his continued support and tireless work with and on behalf of veterans and his truly authentic anti-war credentials are all factors behind his large pool of active military support.
"Ron Paul is the only candidate with a plan to end the growing number of unconstitutional undeclared wars, having an unclear connection to U.S. national security, end costly overseas nation-building that pays no friendship dividends, and stop subsidizing global security." said Jesse Benton.
"Instead Dr. Paul will bring our troops home, secure our borders and lead the nation in practicing a traditional Republican noninterventionist foreign policy." Benton added.
Paul is placed fourth in the fundraising stakes, behind Obama, Romney and Perry, so far in the three quarters of the year that have passed.
Last night's debate in Las Vegas saw every candidate bickering and viciously attacking one and other over each of their flip flopping principles and big government voting records.
Only one candidate remains immune from such shameful displays – because his consistent and untainted record speaks for itself.
Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones' Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.
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LinkedIn surges 6%, nears all-time highSeptember 5, 2012: 2:41 PM ET
Shares of Facebook (FB) were having a nice day for a change on Wednesday. But another social network stock more accustomed to being a darling of Wall Street was also gaining ground. LinkedIn (LNKD) was up more than 6% after an analyst at Jefferies resumed coverage on the stock with a "buy" rating. Shares are now only about 7% below the all-time trading high that LinkedIn hit when it debuted as a public company in May 2011.
LinkedIn is a very very very very expensive stock, trading at more than 180 times 2012 earnings estimates. That makes Facebook like a dirt cheap bargain by way of comparison. But investors continue to be impressed by the fact that LinkedIn has a more diverse business model than Facebook and other social stocks. LinkedIn generates revenue from subscriptions as well as advertising. And the company's sales and profits have been rising at a faster rate than Facebook's.
Still, some traders on StockTwits are worried that LinkedIn is overvalued.
Xto: $LNKD Jefferies gave it a price target $142... can you imagine the P/E then? 🙂
momomiester: $LNKD amazing just some upgrade makes it run out of control
It is crazy how much momentum LinkedIn has. But when you consider just how much of a force the company has become in online recruiting .. . to the clear detriment of sites like Monster Worldwide (MWW) ... it is understandable why there is such excitement.
LinkedIn, like Google (GOOG) in search, may be boring compared to Facebook. But that's a compliment, not a criticism.>
If you are on LinkedIn, it's probably for a productive business reason, not escapist fun. Just imagine how well the company might do once the economy and job market finally start to heat up again.
chicagosean:I've said it before and I'll say it again: $LNKD stock will be a leader in the next major market rally (whenever that happens).
RedDogT3Live: Talked many times that $LNKD is not $FB and has macro investment potential. Holding up well. Trade based on timeframe
That is true. And that brings me to the final tweet.
Techinsidr: If you bought the highly-controversial $LNKD IPO on opening day, you would be up 21% right now.
That's a good point but only partially true. Yes, LinkedIn is up about 21% from its opening day close. But if you were one of the unfortunate ones who bought the stock above $120 earlier that day, you're still underwater even though LinkedIn has been a phenomenal success.
It just goes to show that investing in an IPO on the first day is rarely a good idea unless you get the shares at the offering price. And even then, that's not a guarantee of success. Just ask anyone who's still long Facebook. Or Zynga (ZNGA). Or Groupon (GRPN). Should I continue?


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The group is self-led with support from the Environment Centre staff and some members make items for sale to raise funds for the club. All can come to as many or few sessions as they like – there's always a friendly welcome and something new to learn. As of September 2018 the cost per session is £2 on a pay as you go basis, except for occasional workshops which may cost more. You can read more about the club on this page.
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Value for Money with the Palit GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost OC edition
In today's review we'll look at the Palit GeForce GTX650 Ti Boost OC edition. The SKU comes with an all too familiar looking yet custom PCB and dual-fan cooler. Have a peek at what is this product is all about, and then head on over next page please. So NVIDIA today releases the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost edition. It is their answer to the Radeon HD 7790 that AMD unleashed recently. Is entry level finally reaching mid-range? Can the card play your most favorite games at 1920x1080/1200 ? Well yes it does, the GeForce GTX 650 Ti deserves some explanation though, as the entire 650 range itself now is getting a little flooded with products that differ quite a bit from each other.
See when you take the regular GeForce GTX 650 it comes castrated a bit with just 384 shader cores whereas the regular Ti model is released with a far better 768 CUDA cores (shader processors) and a 925 MHz GPU clock (for the reference products). So that's already nearly double the processing performance and allows the product to compete with the Radeon HD 7770. With the Radeon HD 7790 being roughly a third faster than 7770, NVIDIA needed to out a product that can keep up with that rather significant performance boost -- and as such the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost edition now is introduced. So budget graphics card series for gamers therefore just got a little more interesting. Albeit we say that 175 USD/EUR should not exactly really carry the mark of being low budget.
With that price tag the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost positions itself smack-down in-between AMD's Radeon HD 7790 and 7850, and that really is a comfortable spot to be in for many of you as Full HD gaming (a monitor resolution of 1920x1080) is now becoming a viable option. Obviously NVIDIA did not want to make yet another separate chip. So The GTX 650 Ti Boost is the very same one used on the regular GTX 660, yup the GTX 650 Ti Boost is using the "GF106" silicon opposed to the GK107 being used on the regular 650 model (it's confusing as heck we know). The GK106 silicon is armed with 768 active shader processor cores divided over four processor clusters running at a 980 MHz base clock on the reference products. That means that the GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost packs decent enough punch. There is a distinct difference though, Boost or better yet, dynamics clocking has been added to this model.
That means instead of running a strict 925 MHz base clock on the regular GTX 650 Ti, the Boost edition will now have a base-clock of 980 MHz, but will be allowed to boost to 1033 MHz. Realistically though, the Boost functionality is dependant of many factors like power usage, heat and temperatures of the GPU. So yeah, this GPU will run quite a bit of games at almost 1100 MHz all by itself as well.
The board partners will all release 2GB models of these cards. Not only that, NVIDIA moved from 128-bit towards a 192-bit memory bus, and that is going to help out the product greatly as all of the sudden we have 144 GB/sec of memory bandwidth as the memory domain clock frequency has received an upgrade as well, we move from 5.0 Gbps towards 6.0 Gbps on this card series.
Overall the GeForce GTX 650 Ti has enough horsepower to step into the DX11 games at up-to 1600x1200 resolutions, and if you can forfeit on the most stringent image quality settings like hefty AA then a resolution of 1920x1080/1200 will actually be playable as well. So just don't do any crazy stuff anti-aliasing wise, it's definitely plausible to play games really nicely at such resolutions versus acceptable framerates.
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We had 14 entries for the month, and all ladies had participated in ARTastics challenges before!! Thanks everyone for taking the time to submit your entries, we love seeing all the different art work each month :)
The Picture this winner
Mandy Dodd
with her entry 'Summer'.
'Scrap n Craft with T'
with her entry
'Beach Bums'
........ and here are the winners!!
The Flutterbuys donated punch 'One Way Arrow'
Lizzy Crust
Her entry was
@ Browns Lake (below)
from Debi Clark (ARTastic DT)
donated by Lisa Harahan (Artastic DT)
(All you need to do is add the photo) donated by Debbie Johnston from (FS2S)
Reason - The bright colors reminded me so much of my own beach Days/Daze when my kids were little. I love the photo she used especially the colorful buckets in the foreground and a little person in the background. It was a great entry! - shazza
was Robin Jenkins
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'Fun in the Sun'
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Locally grown PBS series airs
When the Hook first talked to Rebecca Frischkorn in 2004, she envisioned GardenStory as a 13-episode television series on gardens as "inspiring places, healing spaces." Four years later, a 10-episode PBS series launched nationally in April, and the Hook belatedly realizes the last few shows are being shown this weekend on WVPT, where it began airing in April. Oops. But that isn't the last chance to see it.
Frischkorn was living in Charlottesville when she teamed up with UVA landscape architect prof Reuben Rainey (pictured) and producer Bill Reifenberger. By 2005, they had put together four episodes that were broadcast on the other local PBS station, WHTJ.
"Today is the first day they're on 24/7 nationwide on Create," says Frischkorn, who now lives in Washington. Create TV offers how-to programming for PBS, although Frischkorn always has maintained that GardenStory was not a how-to show, but one on "the power of gardens to change lives."
"I'll get email from Boston from people who've seen it," says Crozet resident Reifenberger. GardenStory is in 70 percent of the households that get PBS, he says. Individual stations can schedule their own programming of it over the next three years.
WHTJ doesn't have GardenStory scheduled at the moment, but will likely air it, says the station's D.J. Crotteau. "We're very fond of that show. We aired it three years ago."
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I'll do the diary on another post as I've been a bit busy today – all of which will be explained on the diary …
Anyway the first Aural Delights of 2012 is jammed packed with new stuff and some great stuff from last year……a few links and such but I'm a bit busy to do too much info…..
- Unquiet Nights – Burning The Tracks – 21st Century Redemption Songs
- The Cubical – Dirty Shame – It Aint Human
- Cults – You Know What I Mean – Cults
- Comet Sands – Andromeda – I predict greatness for this lot……
- Curry Quiche – Social Barrier Thing
- Simon Waldram – Gravity
- Paul J Riley – Blue
- Magnetic island – Don't Need I Now – from the new album. The latest message from the band says "January is going to be a busy month in Magnetic Island land. Our debut full-length drops on January 17, and we'll be celebrating its release the following week at Death By Audio in Brooklyn with friends HHR, Bambara and Trabajo.Until then, we wanted to let you know that three tracks from the new album can now be heard in their full mastered glory thanks to Verbal Rocket and QRO Magazine. Grab "Don't Need It Now" from the latest Verbal Rocket mixtape at http://verbalrocket.bandcamp.com and stream "Whatever You Wanted" and "When You're Finished" via QRO Mag athttp://www.qromag.com/mp3s/Magnetic-Island-Whatever-You-Wanted-/.
Expect at least one more song to drop before album release. And if you haven't already, you can still reserve your copy of the LP and some special goodies ahead of time via our album pre-order at http://magneticisland.bandcamp.com/."
- Gang Gang Dance – Romance Layers – from the Eye Contact album
- All India Radio – Bollywood Nights (Remix)
- Dave Graney – I Am Your Humble Servant – from the Supermodified album
- Vaudeville and Bad Omens – Bean Song – from Ravenna – kind of quirky
- Calling All Astronauts – Someone Like You – from Western London – neu-Goth….???
- The Statler Project – Plenty – an Indie Dance Rudewave tune with a wee bit of what someone called Rocktronica from Glasgow.
- Dadamah – Papa Doc – a Farley fumble from New Zealand
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Truck carrying 65,000 gallons of milk crashes, spills contents on I-89 in Sutton
SUTTON, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire State Police say a tractor trailer truck hauling 65,000 gallons of milk on Interstate 89 slid off the road and rolled onto the driver's side, spilling much of the milk.
Police and Department of Environmental Services workers are at the scene of the accident in the southbound lanes in Sutton. The accident happened at about 3:35 a.m. Thursday. One lane is open as crews clean up the spill.
Police said 59-year-old Frederick Steinhour of Enosburg, Vt., was driving the truck, owned by McDermott's Inc. Steinhour wasn't hurt, but the milk tank was ruptured.
Police say temperatures during the overnight hours were hovering around freezing, possibly causing wet road surface temperatures to freeze.


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I want to kill Microsoft Excel. Slowly. With mutilation.
>craft newbie into good playerYou accidentally snap newbie into useless pieces.
I'm gonna go all Gimfalisette on you guys and lay down some numbers.
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Random Thought: Don't argue against Musasushi because.... really... you lose.
Musashi, I hate it when you're right.
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Damn you, Winter!
I hate 105+ weather and almost unbreathable humidity.
Post one if you like ...Mine was (after watching the movie "love actually"):Brits sounds so cute when they say fuck ... they say it so small and quiet like
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I don't always act superior... but when I do it's on the forums of a text-based game
Quote from: Vessol on June 12, 2008, 08:01:23 PMI hate 105+ weather and almost unbreathable humidity.Do you work outside for a living?
Tew is the sound Soh make when they shoot guns.Tew! Tew! Tew!KahKahKahKahKahKahKahKahKah!Tew!
One thing I'd like to see in arm is more people focusing on how to make the game intriguing, by fillingit with murder, betrayal, and corruption, instead of arguing about how combat isn't powerful enough.
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You've obviously never heard a northerner say fuck. The movies lie, they only ever show fancy north london accents. Most brits are vulgar. And have teeth like Austin Powers.
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skate8 wrote:Hi AdoreCuba, This resort has been refurbished. My husband and I are going in March 2007. We have been to this resort for 12 years known as just Villas Doradas, and have always had a great time. It closed last May until November for the renovations, so we are eager to see all the new changes. It has gone from a 3 star to a 4 star resort, and all the reviews we have read have all been positive. Trip Adviser has a lot of reviews and "Escapewinter" took alot of photo's and wrote a long review telling you everything about the resort. Hope you have as good a time as we do always, especially as I look out at the St. Lawrence river this morning and the temperature is 10 below zero Farenhit. Our vacation is looking better and better. Have a great vacation. We also learned this is an Adult only resort. Skate8
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It should be dry out there on the morning commute but chances for rain look more likely as the day wears on. There are no major traffic delays slowing you down. Drive safely.
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